Oooops, looks like I found out how to throw spears, sorry the vast majority of predators, my earth now
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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"Its just me, my pointy wood stick and the rest of your mf"
Where's all those 4chan short stories about humans being the "monsters"/ kick ass.
It was written from the point of view of a deer being tracked by a human even when they were out of sight and smell the humans keep coming and they never got tired.
There was also ones written from the point of view of aliens.
Fuck I wish there was a forum version of 4chan. All the best stuff is on there.
Reddit had the humanity fuck yeah subreddit which housed a lot of great short stories
I wonder if anyone has scraped the text of that sub and hosted it somewhere.
Its still there with tons of content.
I would absolutely love to read this
The latter is called deathworlders. It was written as a short story. The author disappeared for a while. When he came back, he started writing a whole web serial on the premise.
I also remember reading the former, though where is another question.
Thank you so much! I read that years ago and have never been able to find it since. I even asked chatGpt and it wasn't able to find it either. I'm going to go look it up now!
Glad I could help. I still remember reading the forum posts when the author came back from his hiatus. He was almost freaked out by the fact his throwaway story practically created an entire genera of story.
Throwing rocks is really useful too when you never get tired while running. So we'll chase down an animal for twenty kilometers then pelt it with rocks.
Animals: "ow! Ok, I get that this is a- ow! good huntin- ow! Hunting strategy and I'm too tired to- ow! Run. But this is- ow! Just humiliating."
Another animal later: "oh these ones just have very straight sticks, at least that won't be as bad as the rocks--WTF THEY THREW IT INSIDE ME!"
We really do break the balance of the game. Aimed accuracy of throwing things, high level detailed communication and social interaction, that same vocal range means we can imitate animal sounds to trick them into running off cliffs, can literally run animals to death, very high level intelligence allowing planning and tool use.
One or two of these would make us an op apex predator.
uh yes, I can totally do all that!
That's where the high level of communication and society comes in. Not every individual needs to be great at all of it.
high level of communication
Ah yes, I can totally do that, too.
None of us have needed to be able to do any of that for quite a while. We've found far easier ways to survive, thanks to that advanced communication you mentioned.
Seriously no other animal on God’s green, luscious, flat¹ Earth can aim with any accuracy when they throw. It’s only we² Homo sapiens.
- Kitboga
- I understand and accept that despite my yes-homo lifestyle, my aim implies I’m no-Homo
Imagine if spiders could tell each other stories and understand ideas about nations, tools, and money.
See "Children of Time" for the expansion of this idea.
Ok, but wouldn't it be an adventure if octopuses could do the same.
See "Children of Time 2" for the expansion of this idea.
I really need to get those books
I'm actually reading the second one right now. They're both really great books, but the first one was amazing. I recommend it to people all the time. I haven't finished the second one yet, so my opinion is not fully formed, but I'm enjoying it.
I would love this but as a meme like those two crows from Rick and Morty.
Considering what we have done and are doing to the planet and life on it, we should have better just put that rock right back where it was.
Isn't "apes throwing things" why cobras developed the ability to spit venom?
Cobras probably existed looong before any ape did, so that sounds unlikely!
Sure, but did cobras that spit venom exist before us stick throwing primates? Apparently not really. Spitting cobras seem to emerge in Africa when the hominin lineage emerged ~ 7 million years ago and in Asia around the same time H. Erectus moved into Asia ~2.5 million years ago
This seems like such an oddly specific adaptation, but you’re right, especially the fact that it happened twice makes it a lot more believable
Yes, to defend against apes bearing sticks.
It didn't really take off until we invented the atlatl. It's a specially shaped tool that let's you throw a spear farther - like that tennis ball flinger for playing fetch with your dog.
That's when we went "now I can kill that fucking water buffalo without getting close enough for it to wreck my shit."
Already has the best range stats out of all the classes, uses the intelligence stat to boost it even further.
That's a neanderthal though. We offed them too!
Projectiles op please nerf